BBC TV coverage happening this year?

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, bamber said:

I remember this Roni Size set being exceptional, this recording backs that up.

He did the last night of the Arcadia Spider in 2017 and we wound up right under the cockpit when he dropped Brown Paper Bag. I'm not even much of fan of d'n'b but it was still a great moment.

[BobWillis2]

7 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

Pyramid burnt down in April 1994 and wasn’t rebuilt until early 2000

I didn’t realise it was for that long. 
 

Never trust Wikipedia who list every other year as the Pyramid stage 🙈 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival_line-ups

[sedra]

Still can’t believe my friend made me leave half way through Radiohead 1997 to go see Kula Shaker on the NME stage because her daughter was a massive fan 🙄🥲

[Pinhead]

1 minute ago, BobWillis2 said:

I didn’t realise it was for that long. 
 

Never trust Wikipedia who list every other year as the Pyramid stage 🙈 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival_line-ups

It was usually referred to as Pyramid during that time even tho it wasnt, and sometimes 'Main Stage'.

[Punksnotdead]

1 minute ago, BobWillis2 said:

I didn’t realise it was for that long. 
 

Never trust Wikipedia who list every other year as the Pyramid stage 🙈 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival_line-ups

Pretty sure it was always billed as the pyramid stage, even when it wasn't!

[Pinhead]

I would have gone in 93 as well but was convinced i'd get mugged, shot etc. Went in 94 ist time and someone got shot... 

[bamber]

4 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

He did the last night of the Arcadia Spider in 2017 and we wound up right under the cockpit when he dropped Brown Paper Bag. I'm not even much of fan of d'n'b but it was still a great moment.

Strangely a bit forgotten Roni Size these days. D&B motors on though. It is the ultimate form to my mind.

[Gnomicide]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

My take - and I've said this before - is that bouncing up and down on the spot at any gig was a 1990s trend.

Nothing to do with mobile phones.  It didn't happen in the 60s  70s or much in the 80s. 

I bounced my way through every gig I went to in the 80s.

45 minutes ago, bamber said:

Err? Oh yes it is.🙂

Preach.

[gooner1990]

1 minute ago, Pinhead said:

I would have gone in 93 as well but was convinced i'd get mugged, shot etc. Went in 94 ist time and someone got shot... 

I had opportunity’s to go in 1998,1999,2000,2002 &2003 with other friends - said Reading was enough for me until I was convinced to go in 2004 and never looked back.

kick myself about the 5 I should have gone to but didn’t to this day. 

[gooner1990]

4 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

It was usually referred to as Pyramid during that time even tho it wasnt, and sometimes 'Main Stage'.

When did the NME stage become the Other Stage?

[bamber]

Just now, gooner1990 said:

When did the NME stage become the Other Stage?

When NME started running out of money.

[Pinhead]

Just now, gooner1990 said:

When did the NME stage become the Other Stage?

Oooo, thats a good one. Certainly was still NME in 98 - maybe 99 or even 2000.

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

The lack of flags in the before-times always surprises me.

[gooner1990]

1 minute ago, Pinhead said:

Oooo, thats a good one. Certainly was still NME in 98 - maybe 99 or even 2000.

Was the Other Stage by the time I started going in 2004

[CaledonianGonzo]

5 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

I bounced my way through every gig I went to in the 80s.

Preach.

[Pinhead]

Lost Vagueness seemed to begin in embryo about 98 when the field was signposted 'Weird Beird' and just had a spirits kind of bar in it which served a good all day breakfast during the day.

[Pinhead]

2 minutes ago, HotChipWillBreakYourLegs said:

The lack of flags in the before-times always surprises me.

Except for 'Wolves Flag' - the original flag.

[bamber]

2 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

Except for 'Wolves Flag' - the original flag.

And a Mexican flag, that too.

[Pinhead]

1 minute ago, Pinhead said:

Except for 'Wolves Flag' - the original flag.

Raised by a bloke called John iirc from at least 95 onwards, maybe even earlier but wasnt looking b4 then... Its on every video of every popular pyramid act since.

[waltere]

When did the New Bands Tent become John Peel?

EDIT

And is it true that its name was in reference to being a "Bands Tent" which was newly created, as opposed to a tent for "New Bands"

Edited June 25, 2021 by waltere

[Zoo Music Girl]

19 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

He did the last night of the Arcadia Spider in 2017 and we wound up right under the cockpit when he dropped Brown Paper Bag. I'm not even much of fan of d'n'b but it was still a great moment.

I'm annoyed that I was at this festival and missed this.

Saw him in 2018 and it wa fucking great but that sounds brilliant.

[Pinhead]

1 minute ago, waltere said:

When did the New Bands Tent become John Peel?

2002?

[bamber]

2 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

Raised by a bloke called John iirc from at least 95 onwards, maybe even earlier but wasnt looking b4 then... Its on every video of every popular pyramid act since.

Excellent full Glastonbury nerd information. 😶👨‍🎨

[Pinhead]

1 minute ago, Pinhead said:

2002?

Maybe 2000 - oh my fuckin memory...

[Pinhead]

1 minute ago, bamber said:

Excellent full Glastonbury nerd information. 😶👨‍🎨

Indeed. I went up to him in 2014 and congratulated him on his tenacity.